TfL analysis shows big potential for cycling in Tower Hamlets

Submitted by alex on 18 June 2017

Transport for London has now published its Strategic Cycling Analysis, which identifies routes where there is a high potential for cycling. The analysis brings together an impressively wide range of data. It includes information about the trips Londoners currently make and what proportion of them could, in reality, easily be made by bicycle. It then combines this with other factors, including demographic data and likely areas of future increase in population or employment.

This analysis does not identify specific roads or propose any actual schemes. However, the corridors it highlights are very likely to be where Transport for London's funding for cycling infrastructure is aimed over the next few years. The good news for us in Tower Hamlets is that two of London's Top 25 potential connections are primarily in our borough: one from Shadwell to Hackney Mare St, and another from the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to Hackney (numbers 4 and 5 respectively on the map above).

There is also a high potential route identified up the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs to west of Bow Roundabout, and medium potential routes along the western side of the Isle of Dogs and roughly along the route of Bethnal Green Road.

To reiterate, these connections are a long way from being worked-up schemes, but they will be a very useful source of evidence for local politicians, council officers and campaigners when proposing and promoting potential cycling infrastructure.